Bitcoin ransomware hacker must pay $356K or spend 2 more years in prison

A jailed hacker responsible for distributing highly effective Bitcoin-demanding ransomware campaigns has been ordered to pay $355,671 (£270,000) to avoid seeing his prison sentence extended. 25-year-old computer science student Zain Qaiser was sentenced to more than six years in April after admitting he was part of a Russian-speaking cybercrime group that made huge profits from victims in over 20 countries. Prior to his arrest, Qaiser spent his gains on luxury hotels, prostitutes, gamblin